Comments on: Why Twitter Should be Very Worried About Google+http://siliconfilter.com/why-twitter-should-be-very-worried-about-google/
Thu, 31 May 2012 03:10:15 +0000hourly1By: ASegarhttp://siliconfilter.com/why-twitter-should-be-very-worried-about-google/#comment-692
Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:09:36 +0000http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6244#comment-692@MattieTK I’m not sure that the ability to make some circles public will do what Twitter does so well in its crude but simple fashion. (Won’t that potentially lead to some privacy conflicts between the people in a circle that you want to make public?) I’d worry that the implications would be complex and hard to predict—rather like the byzantine privacy settings in FaceBook which get changed without warning every once in a while.

There’s a lot to be said for the simplicity of everything-I-tweet-is-public. For everything else, there’s Google+.

]]>By: MattieTKhttp://siliconfilter.com/why-twitter-should-be-very-worried-about-google/#comment-690
Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:40:24 +0000http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6244#comment-690@dyson.logos @andybak If they can get Huddle to work with SMS in the same manner that GroupMe works then this is next to solved also. Google have a really smart platform here they can easily manipulate to whatever they need to do.
]]>By: MattieTKhttp://siliconfilter.com/why-twitter-should-be-very-worried-about-google/#comment-689
Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:39:02 +0000http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6244#comment-689@ASegar Imagine if Google allows you to make certain circles public and then allows you to separate your feeds between circles. Boom, your community issue is solved, and in a much better way than the hashtag hack that twitter has been working on for the past few years. Everyone can copy and follow the community circle you follow, people can share information with that circle and get added to the group if their content is good, nobody else has to know you’re a member of #secretagameofthronesknittingclub 😉
]]>By: ASegarhttp://siliconfilter.com/why-twitter-should-be-very-worried-about-google/#comment-688
Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:04:00 +0000http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6244#comment-688Here’s why I think Twitter doesn’t have to worry.

Tweets are public.

The core beauty of Twitter is that anything you write can be read by anyone. Granted, 99.9999% of what is written is of interest to a small audience, if anyone, but no other service can supply the ability to search the current utterances of millions of people about subjects of interest, whether they be pinpoint or broad.

There are (at least) tens of thousands of recognizable communities on Twitter. Because Twitter is public, these communities often blur into each other and allow us to discover interesting people at the edges of our spheres of interest, constantly redefining our own sphere as a result.

Most of the new professional contacts I have made and work I’ve received over the last eighteen months has occurred through Twitter, and my involvement in the #eventprofs, #engage365, #assnchat, #speakchat, and other communities. Through them I’ve made many online connections that have then turned into face-to-face connections, some of which have led to solid business relationships.

I don’t see how this kind of osmosis will happen with Google+, though I think it will be very useful for maintaining *existing* relationships (the hangouts look very promising in that regard).

Just my 2¢.

-Adrian-

]]>By: uvamanihttp://siliconfilter.com/why-twitter-should-be-very-worried-about-google/#comment-683
Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:40:53 +0000http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6244#comment-683I have used it for sometime now and I have found it to be a better facebook replacement than twitter replacement.

twitter is designed for public asynchronous follow model. 1000 people following a celebrity. @ replies allows me to tell the “celebrity” what I think without it polluting ie spamming everybody elses stream. If the “celebrity” chooses, they can engage me. Either way the original tweet once consumed disappears in the information river …

I tried to follow Larry Page and Vic Gundotra on +1… Everytime someone comments, it bubbles to the top of the stream. And old posts by those guys are always on top of my stream due to their engagement scores. Facebook fanpages have the same problem of engagement… Though facebook does some voodoo burying.

Facebook fan pages also have another problem it mixes my friends who post at a different rate and professionals who post at a much higher rate … Mixing friends and interests does not seem to work. at least for me..

Overall Ive found facebook fan pages and google+ which is a lot like facebook fan pages to not meet the information and interest network that twitter is. Twitter allows me to follow WSJ columnists and President Obama and have a conversation with a tech blogger at the same time. These other networks not so much…

Indeed. There are entire twitter communities that use it almost exclusively by SMS. I maintain two accounts, one that I use by SMS with close friends and one that I use via application with fellow bloggers.

]]>By: bwoocelihttp://siliconfilter.com/why-twitter-should-be-very-worried-about-google/#comment-673
Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:50:39 +0000http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6244#comment-673@andybak @dyson.logos a whole huge chunk of the planet is very SMS driven. the Arab spring was facilitated in a large way by twitter on sms
]]>By: bwoocelihttp://siliconfilter.com/why-twitter-should-be-very-worried-about-google/#comment-672
Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:48:27 +0000http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6244#comment-672@andybak @dyson.logos
]]>By: andybakhttp://siliconfilter.com/why-twitter-should-be-very-worried-about-google/#comment-671
Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:14:05 +0000http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6244#comment-671@dyson.logos Do people really still use Twitter via SMS?
]]>By: bourdinehttp://siliconfilter.com/why-twitter-should-be-very-worried-about-google/#comment-669
Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:06:05 +0000http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6244#comment-669@lapdance You’re wrong. Twitter can not be RSS+. Seriously, It too much noised to be it. But Ploq can be called RSS+, it really kill noise at newsfeeds and have many thing never before. Ploq is match RSS+. http://ploq.me/faq/
]]>By: bourdinehttp://siliconfilter.com/why-twitter-should-be-very-worried-about-google/#comment-668
Sat, 02 Jul 2011 07:59:24 +0000http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6244#comment-668@lapdanceou’re wrong.Twitter is not RSS+ is not

You’re wrong. Twitter can not be RSS+. Seriously, It too much noised to be it. But Ploq can be called RSS+, it really kill noise at newsfeeds and have many thing never before. Ploq is match RSS+. http://ploq.me/faq/

1. It’s impossible to know what’s going on. If I go to my feeds or whatever they are called, old messages sit at the top of the page. Newer ones are scattered throughout – that’s just confusing.

2. About 50% of the people following me, or adding or whatever the term Google+ uses is, are flaky. The only option Google’s email message gives me is to follow them – what’s more it bundled the non-flaky incoming requests with the flaky ones.

I hope Google+ is a work in progress and some of these rough edges get knocked off before too much longer.

I don’t see how Google+ interfaces at all well with non-smart-phones. Twitter is an SMS platform that has gotten bigger than that. As long as Google+ doesn’t transmit via SMS, it can’t compete with that – the very core of Twitter’s functionality.

]]>By: FredKruegerhttp://siliconfilter.com/why-twitter-should-be-very-worried-about-google/#comment-663
Sat, 02 Jul 2011 05:55:03 +0000http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6244#comment-663i think both facebook and twitter are directly threatened. There are clear flaws with both companies:

facebook — forcing companies to use their virtual currency (at 30% of revenue), bad privacy controls, bad personal record of ethics / privacy, antiquated UI, no way to differentiate “friends”, no way to “follow”

I thing Google is definitely *not* going to go into this business. They are way too concerned about privacy. Not to mention that their “firehose” is deliberately small because sharing happens by default among friends (“circles”) only.

Google has some nice big data APIs, but they are carefully anonymous. Also, they have some interesting “small” APIs for building plugins and tools for people to use, but they are all carefully opt-in by users.